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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1897
Page
7
A brief notice reports advertising rates at five cents per line and a weekly edition with a line for a week. It notes average circulation for the first six months and highlights best performance among lines and billing terms.
At a Budapest state banquet for Emperor William of Germany, Emperor Francis Joseph lauded their alliance and peace efforts calling William a faithful ally and fellow laborer in peace. William praised Hungary, its history and devotion, noting a long alliance and mutual respect.
A one year old girl Ida Strougin of 42 Forsyth Street was arraigned in Essex Market court by Gerry Society agents after being found acting strangely near the elevated station on Third Avenue. Surrounded by youths who teased her while she rambled about a French dancer, she wore hair covering her face and carried a schoolbag. Taken to Gerry Society rooms then Bellvue Hospital, officials described the incident as mental illness.
Miss Pertha Bowen of Centralia, Kansas, becomes the first woman elected president of the Kansas University Junior class. The public speaker husky voice notes a keen oratory talent as Bowen takes office, while advertisements cite One Minute Cough Cure by G. W. Stansfield of 622 Kansas Avenue.
North Topeka society columns list visitors from Salina Oklahoma Hoyt Wilson and Concordia visiting local families. Weddings include Edith Bradford and William Hutton at Shorey home. Farewell sermon for Rev Bodley marked by prayers for Rev Safford, with many Cathedral communicants attending.
City of Atchison seeks perpetual injunction against Chicago and Atchison L riding company to bar tolls and use of the Missouri river bridge claiming charter expiry and irregular capital. If won, result could establish a free Atchison bridge. Also notes a Kansas penitentiary pardon case involving Dr Homer A Call and a possibly fraudulent alliance. Ends with advertisement for Beggs German Salve.
The American Newspaper Directory is to newspaper circulations what Dun and Bradstreet's is to mercantile ratings. It is the recognized authority among advertisers and now in its twenty-ninth year of publication. For years it has guaranteed with a standing offer of $100 for proof that its statements of certain newspaper circulations were not correct.
The American Newspaper Directory cites The State Journal as having the largest daily circulation in Topeka Shawnee County and the First Congressional District based on signed statements. It notes much of its edition bears no postage due to carrier or express delivery.
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